"...doctors had decided, based on overnight monitoring, to perform a cardiac catheterization on Mr. Whittington."
As I understand it, cardiac catherization is a procedure which is solely designed to evaluate the heart. It is not surgery, but it is invasive. Very, in fact.
74 posted on 02/14/2006 2:07:41 PM PST by Radix
(I really love the liberals, they put the FUN in funerals.)